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Shoo Fly Pie - American Cake - Pie Cake

What's a pie doing in a cake book? It is really cake batter in a pie shell. It's molasses and sugar and coffee and flour all in a pie pan. It grows like a cake in a pan so don't be put off by how little batter fills your pie pan before it's baked.

Shoo Fly Pie!
I think it's so delicious you have to shoo the flies away.

I did mine in an 11 inch tart pan and it was a bad idea, it over flowed the edges of the pan. I was able to trim it and still serve the pie, but I would not recommend going that way. Use a real pie pan.

350 degree oven.
Prepare the pie shell and refrigerate while mixing the ingredients. Using a food processor combine the flour, sugars, nutmeg and baking powder. Pulse to combine. Dot with cold butter and pulse further to cut the butter into the flour mixture. You can do this by hand as well. Rubbing the butter into the flour. Reserve .025 cups of the dry mixture for sprinkling on top before baking.
In the large measuring cup combine the coffee and molasses, stir in the baking soda (watch out it bubbles up) pour this into the flour/butter mixture and whirl until mixed.
Pour into the pie pan, sprinkle with reserved flour/butter mixture and bake at 40-50 minutes until the center is set. Let cool 15 minutes and serve warm or cold.

How many songs about baked goods are there? And I think I need to find an Apple Pan Dowdy recipe.

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